Forbidden Worlds #3

When Pat and Gloria discover an isolated castle in Central Europe, they decide to investigate the mysterious structure for Pat's book on ancient fortresses—only to learn that the seemingly ordinary innkeeper harbors a terrifying secret. As the vampire lures Gloria toward his lair, Pat must pursue them to the castle's heights, where he'll need every ounce of cunning to outwit a creature that can't be stopped by ordinary weapons. The night becomes a desperate battle of wits against an ancient evil that's preyed on the region for centuries.

When an atomic bomb experiment goes catastrophically wrong, physicist Bruce Norton and his fiancée Betty are swept aboard a runaway balloon into the stratosphere—only to crash-land on a nightmarish alien world inhabited by the exiled spirits of Earth's most wicked souls. Now trapped in the Domain of the Doomed, Bruce and Betty must confront creatures who see the atomic bomb as their ticket to escape their prison and return to Earth as mortal beings bent on conquest and terror. With the bomb's detonation counting down and their only hope of survival hanging by a thread, they race against time to prevent a catastrophe that could unleash pure evil upon the world.

When Davey Knox borrows an ancient skull from his father's study for a Halloween bonfire prank, he unknowingly unleashes forces far darker than boyish mischief—forces connected to Robert Knox's shadowy past in the Orient and a curse sworn by the Dalai Rama of Karak himself. As the skull burns and its spirit rises to claim vengeance, Robert finds himself hunted by a supernatural reckoning he thought he'd escaped years ago. The night of masks and pretense becomes a race against an otherworldly terror that bullets cannot stop.

A runaway orphan seeking shelter stumbles upon Old Kate's cottage and saves the mysterious woman from a violent attack—only to learn she's a genuine witch with plans to make him her apprentice. As Tim falls under her spell and begins mastering the dark arts, he transforms from a bullied outcast into a powerful young man, but Old Kate's ultimate purpose for him remains shrouded in shadows. Written by the creators of Forbidden Worlds, "The Witch's Apprentice" weaves a chilling tale of manipulation and forbidden knowledge that builds toward a confession made from a prison cell.